It’s that time of year again! Get out your 2010 calendars and make sure you sign up for one or more training sessions as a part of your continued education. I have highlighted 15 here that I highly recommend, as well as provided a list of training sites for you to bookmark for future reference.
Beyond Bootcamp Multimedia Workshop: Miami, Florida: Jan. 9-12 & 13-16, 2010
“The intensive three-day workshops will be taught by leading faculty and internationally renowned multimedia professionals. Each workshop opens in the evening with a keynote speaker, and features a daily luncheon with an award-wining multimedia producer and three full days of instruction.”
Knight Digital Media Center’s Multimedia Training: Berkeley, California: Jan. 10-15, 2010
“The workshop covers all aspects of multimedia news production, from basic storyboarding to the incorporation of multimedia features in storytelling. Participants are taught the technical skills they need to produce quality multimedia stories including audio/video recording and editing, Flash graphics, digital cameras, Photoshop and web design concepts. Guest speakers discuss the future of journalism, the role of technology and the importance of audience engagement.”
*Note: Workshop also offered May 16-21 and June 13-18.*
MediaStorm’s Advanced Multimedia Reporting Workshop: New York City, New York: Feb. 20-26, 2010
“Over the course of a week, participants will work in three-person teams, reporting and editing in collaboration with a seasoned multimedia professional to produce a multimedia project for distribution across multiple platforms.”
Poynter’s Digital Media Entrepreneurship Workshop: St. Petersburg, Florida: Feb. 22-26, 2010
“Have and idea for a Web-based business? Whatever your passion you can turn that interest into an online media venture. Learn strategies for creating content, engaging an audience and finding revenue to support your enterprise. People who live or work in Pinellas County could qualify for free tuition, thanks to a grant from WorkNet Pinellas.”
Knight Digital Media Center’s Web 2.0 Training: Berkeley, California: Feb. 22-26, 2010
“Workshop fellows create data-driven map mash-ups, use Google publishing and data visualization tools, create SEO-smart blog posts, shoot, edit and post HD video, create publication widgets, and use Facebook and Twitter both for reporting and for driving traffic.”
Freedom Forum Diversity Institute’s Multimedia Boot Camp: Nashville, Tennessee: Feb. 24-28, 2010
“The multimedia training is tailored for journalists but open to anyone with an interest in multimedia storytelling, regardless of the individual’s background. For an additional charge, successful participants can earn 3 college credits. The courses are accredited by the Media Studies Department of Belmont University, which awards the credits. Journalism educators, professionals, students and others can develop and hone their skills in audio, photo and video storytelling at the boot camps.”
*NOTE: Workshops also held Aug. 2-6, Aug. 11-15, and Nov. 17-21*
Poynter’s Essential Skills for the Digital Journalist: St. Petersburg, Florida: March 8-12, 2010
“Succeeding in journalism’s digital age requires special skills. Let Poynter help you master the basics of audio, video and other multimedia tools, as well as skills for navigating the ethical pressure points presented by today’s emerging platforms. You’ll leave with the know-how and confidence to grow in a new media world. Most importantly, you’ll change the way you think about storytelling and the role of independent journalism in our communities.”
NPPA’s NewsVideo Workshop: Norman, Oklahoma: March 14-19, 2010
“The NewsVideo Workshop is a week long, intense immersion into the world of moving pictures and sound. You will spend 12 – 16 hours each day learning from a faculty of more than 20 nationally- and internationally-recognized, award-winning journalists.”
NPPA’s Advanced Storytelling Workshop: San Marcos, Texas: April 11-16, 2010
“Once accepted as a participant for The Advanced StoryTelling Workshop you must be ready to work. You will need to pack as if you were preparing for a week on the road for your station/newspaper. Bring a variety of casual clothing. Reporters will be doing standups during the week but won’t be critiqued on your outfit. You will need to rent a car to get around for your assignments. Bring at least THREE of your stories for critiquing on DVD and another copy on whatever format you use for editing. One story should be your “best work to date,” another should be “one that got away” – a story you thought was going to be a great but for some reason, didn’t turn out as well as you’d hoped. Bring other stories you’d like critiqued.”
UNC Multimedia Bootcamp: Chapel Hill, North Carolina: May 23-28, 2010
“This workshop is designed for professional journalists who want to explore the various forms of multimedia storytelling and how they work together to create a cohesive package. The intensive, weeklong multimedia training program includes sessions on project planning, audio and video collection and editing, Flash animation and production, and ActionScript basics for journalists. While this multimedia training workshop draws many news photographers and visual journalists, reporters, web developers and all who need multimedia training are welcome.”
The Kalish Workshops: Muncie, Indiana: June 4-7, 2010
“The Kalish is a workshop that has reinvented itself to design a bridge between the training needs of two distinct yet related news gathering groups: Online news organizations with staffs that possess incredible web skills but need help in visual storytelling and journalistic skills; and newspaper organizations that have skilled visual storytellers and journalists but are lacking web skills. You’ll be involved in hands-on exercises and discussions that include making good choices about individual pictures, as well as, how multiple pictures can, or do not, work together on a news page or the web. You’ll be expected to work from a story budget of daily stories and project work, and create a page one newspaper page with accompanying inside pages for a picture story. You’ll be expected to produce a short video from a variety of assets based on a story board exercise. You’ll get a full day of management exercises and discussions designed to help you, help your staff, move across a fast changing landscape. Topics for discussion include managing resources across platforms, demonstrating leadership qualities at the staff, mid-management and senior management levels, as well as a management panel to answer any questions you might have. ”
Poynter’s Going Mobile With Your News: St. Petersburg, Florida: June 16-19, 2010
“Learn to create a mobile news delivery strategy, including building mobile apps, and figure out how to employ mobile devices to gather content quickly from the field. We’ll help you unlock the journalistic power of mobile technology and show you how the public is consuming information on cell phones and PDAs. We’ll demonstrate the simple ways you can optimize your mobile site for smart phone users, and we’ll help you think through the issues you’ll face in design and implementation.”
Poynter’s Multimedia Journalism for College Educators: St. Petersburg, Florida: July 19-23, 2010
“There’s no need to fear technology. In this hands-on seminar, you’ll learn how to gather and edit audio, shoot and edit video, create slideshows and use online resources in the classroom. You’ll also learn how to apply these skills in the classroom and teach them to students who will be entering a demanding workforce. Additionally, you’ll hear from other educators throughout the United States and internationally. Find out what’s working in their schools, how they use technology in their classrooms and how they use best practices to teach multimedia skills.”
Poynter’s Programming for Journalists / Journalism for Programmers: St. Petersburg, Florida: Aug. 25-27, 2010
“Never before have programmers offered so much promise to those who pursue journalism. Unfortunately, the partnership often fails because the two groups just don’t understand each other. This new Poynter seminar can change that. Journalism entrepreneurs and leaders will learn basic programming skills, while teaching programmers how to see the world through a journalist’s eyes. Programmers will teach journalists how to turn data into usable information — and share great examples of efforts that worked. Together, we’ll use those skills to design viable projects that you can take home and introduce into your newsroom.”
Eddie Adams Workshop: Jeffersonville, New York: Oct. 9-12, 2010
“The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top photography professionals, along with 100 carefully selected students. The photography workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios.”
What seems to be missing in most of these is a commitment to freelancers as well as staffers. Most of the workshops are geared to staff photographers at newspapers and actually give preference in enrollment to staffers. As more and more folks are moving to (forced or on their own) freelance, it would be nice to find programs that help the freelance community! We are the ones who are footing the bill for all of our continuing education and don’t have company support.
Great point, Jan. I will look into training opportunities for freelancers. If there aren’t great resources out there for you yet, there definitely will be in the near future due to the economy and turmoil in the newspaper industry!
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